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GuyThiebaut21-Dec-23 19:28

21-Dec-23 19:28

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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

― Christopher Hitchens

ChandraRam21-Dec-23 20:11

21-Dec-23 20:11

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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche

Re: Wordle 916 - shoulda been 3 4 me

pkfox21-Dec-23 20:54

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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

Cp-Coder22-Dec-23 1:01

22-Dec-23 1:01

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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!

Well that isn't good.

jschell21-Dec-23 3:38

21-Dec-23 3:38

From CP newsletter.

Interpol operation arrests 3,500 cybercriminals, seizes $300 million[^]

"Another emerging scam tool is AI and deep fake tools to generate synthetic content that appears realistic to the targets or even the voice of a person close to them."

I have gotten a couple of calls where a person claims to have been arrested and they need bail.

Now there is no way I am going to fall for the gift card and meeting on a corner somewhere since I know exactly how bail works. But still if I know the voice on the other end that is going to get complicated. Since other scenarios where gift card and corner might apply (like a claimed kidnapping.)

I would probably still call the police.

But perhaps time to look into a 'key phrase' for the relatives. Or at least the ones that I would give money to in the first place.

Re: Well that isn't good.

honey the codewitch21-Dec-23 4:24

honey the codewitch

21-Dec-23 4:24

Someone recently tried to phish me, and they had a human at the end of an 800 number as part of the scam.

Someone is paying for that number, so I reported it to the FBI.

It was pretty convincing if you missed a minor detail in the originating email, the same detail that got it through the google filters, and that was that it originated from a gmail address.

I don't want anyone falling victim to them, that's why I reported them.

/snitch

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Re: Well that isn't good.

charlieg21-Dec-23 9:23

21-Dec-23 9:23

fbi? good luck with that circus

Charlie Gilley

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

Has never been more appropriate.

Re: Well that isn't good.

honey the codewitch21-Dec-23 9:28

honey the codewitch

21-Dec-23 9:28

They make it pretty easy actually.

Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

Re: Well that isn't good.

charlieg21-Dec-23 10:21

21-Dec-23 10:21

I'm sure they make it easy to submit stuff. What they do with it is completely up to conjecture.
It's a corrupt organization.

Charlie Gilley

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

Has never been more appropriate.

Re: Well that isn't good.

jschell22-Dec-23 6:03

22-Dec-23 6:03

charlieg wrote:
It's a corrupt organization.

Opinion. And a political one at that.

In contrast one example of the FBI shutting done cybercrime. One of the many types of crimes that they investigate and which leads to prosecution.

FBI seizes Genesis Market, a cybercrime forum used for large-scale identity theft | CNN Politics[^]

Re: Well that isn't good.

jochance23-Dec-23 12:55

23-Dec-23 12:55

They've had a few times I think that they have either hacked and patched vulnerable machines or hacked the hackers and stole money back.

Re: Well that isn't good.

Gary Wheeler21-Dec-23 6:40

21-Dec-23 6:40

jschell wrote:
look into a 'key phrase' for the relatives

When my daughter was little, we had a phrase we taught her. If she wasn't with us (visiting a friend, school, etc.) she knew she had to hear that phrase before going anywhere or doing anything with anyone else. We never actually needed it, but she still remembers the phrase (she's 32 now Big Grin | :-D

Big Grin | :-D

).

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: Well that isn't good.

MarkTJohnson21-Dec-23 6:56

21-Dec-23 6:56

Is she married and did you teach it to the husband? Otherwise, she failed.

I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.

Re: Well that isn't good.

Gary Wheeler21-Dec-23 7:11

21-Dec-23 7:11

Hmm. I'm going to assume you're making a joke here, and not insulting my daughter's intelligence. She's a smart one, and will Elephant | [mastadon]

Elephant | [mastadon]

your *cough* stuff *cough* up.

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: Well that isn't good.

MarkTJohnson22-Dec-23 2:02

22-Dec-23 2:02

You didn't see the Joke icon on the post?

I'm a programmer, it doesn't take much skill to Elephant | [mastadon]

Elephant | [mastadon]

my stuff up.
Bad knees, nerve impingement in the left shoulder, my 3 yr old granddaughter can mess me up.

I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.

Re: Well that isn't good.

Gary Wheeler22-Dec-23 2:05

22-Dec-23 2:05

MarkTJohnson wrote:
You didn't see the Joke icon on the post?

Nope. Sorry if I sounded testy. It doesn't take much to make me go full-bore Papa Bear Blush | :O

Blush | :O

.

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: Well that isn't good.

obermd21-Dec-23 8:58

21-Dec-23 8:58

Hopefully she did so she and her husband can teach it to their children.

Re: Well that isn't good.

Marc Clifton21-Dec-23 7:34

21-Dec-23 7:34

I got a text message that I owed the "Well Care" walking clinic some moola with a link to pay. I called the clinic directly to confirm that it was a legitimate text message and the amounts matched. While convenient, frankly, I wouldn't even trust a bill if it came in the mail nowadays!

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Re: Well that isn't good.

Gerry Schmitz21-Dec-23 8:25

21-Dec-23 8:25

One doesn't know their "relatives" that well if one needs a "key phrase". "Who was there" or "where did we", etc. seems more reasonable and more fluid.

"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

Re: Well that isn't good.

jochance23-Dec-23 8:55

23-Dec-23 8:55

Other people can potentially discover 'historical' things though.

They won't 'crack' the inanity of "The lazy fox jumps over the big brown hog at midnight in ballet slippers before foie gras with the fellas...."

Re: Well that isn't good.

DerekT-P22-Dec-23 5:56

22-Dec-23 5:56

I've heard on other social media of AI voice-alike scams. But I had a learning experience last week, (the learning being not to be so stupid). Got a text from an unknown number "Hi Dad, I broke my phone, lost all my contacts; this is my new number". I assumed my son (my daughter doesn't usually do stuff like break her phone) so I texted back "OK; weren't they backed up?" Got a reply "I thought so, but seems not". At that point I actually deleted my son's old number and added the new, then wondered "Maybe it's my daughter?" so stupidly texted back "are you Adam or Beth?" (I used their real names, not Adam/Beth). Got a text back "Adam". So all seemed very normal, not suspicious. Told my wife who immediately called "Adam" on his old number, and had a perfectly normal chat, no prob with the phone at all. Stupid me.

Anyway, if I ever get something like that again, I'll just call back on the number I have for them.

Also had emails recently saying "We have a delivery for you today - will you be in between 1 and 2pm?" Well... that's too blatantly stupid for even me to fall for! Laugh | :laugh:

Laugh | :laugh:

Laugh | :laugh:

Take care, folks!

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Re: Well that isn't good.

jschell22-Dec-23 6:07

22-Dec-23 6:07

DerekT-P wrote:
Also had emails recently saying...

I got a text 'from' UPS which said they had a problem with the delivery and I needed to click the link.

Of course I knew that was stupid and I just deleted it.

However I was in fact expecting a delivery that very day and that reminded me of that. So I checked and there was my package. If I hadn't gotten that spam I probably wouldn't have checked until the next day.

( C/C++ historical question) was there a point in time where adding a return at the end of a void function was required ?

Maximilien21-Dec-23 2:35

21-Dec-23 2:35

I see a lot of things like this in the project I'm working on:

Was it necessary at some point in time ?

Was this an ancient C syntax ?

C++

void f(){
  // .... do something
  return;
}

I would not be surprised if I see old K&R syntax somewhere like this

C++

void f( a ) 
 int a 
{
}

CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair

Re: ( C/C++ historical question) was there a point in time where adding a return at the end of a void function was required ?

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0x01AA21-Dec-23 2:50

21-Dec-23 2:50

Was it necessary at some point in time ?

I would say no, but I can't answer it definitively. But in the 35 years I've been programming C++, I've never been forced to write a 'return' at the end of a void method.

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Neither I have been forced (by some older compilers from Borland) to write a return even it was a 'non-void' method. Which ended usually in a desaster, especally when the return type was float or double Sniff | :^)

Sniff | :^)

Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: ( C/C++ historical question) was there a point in time where adding a return at the end of a void function was required ?

k505421-Dec-23 4:14

21-Dec-23 4:14

I have a vague recollection that in K&R days, the value of a function was the value of the last executed statement. so

C

f(x)
int x;
{
   x += 3;
}

would return whatever x+3 evaluated to. I also seem to recall that a function return had to fit in a register. Not sure if either of those are correct. It was a long long time ago. But not in a galaxy far away.

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